Director, Process Improvement

2 weeks ago

Pasadena, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time

Job Summary: Directs the delivery, execution, and sustainment of process improvement (PI) engagements including kaizen. Ensures consultation is provided to stakeholders and process owners by building and nurturing trusted partnerships between stakeholders and teams to drive process improvements. Directs the development of strategic plans which ensure alignment of organizational objectives, business priorities, and process improvement initiatives. Serves as a lead advocate for continuous improvement by keeping abreast of cutting edge industry practices, standards, and benchmarks. Oversees large and complex change management activities associated with care delivery or clinical initiatives and directs team members in performing complex data analyses to drive care delivery or clinical initiatives. Essential Responsibilities:

Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.

Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.

Directs the delivery, execution, and sustainment of process improvement (PI) engagements including kaizen by guiding the use of advanced methods and tools to ensure the development of stakeholder capabilities for process change and improvement; overseeing the deployment of data-driven PI principles, tools, and problem-solving methods including Lean/Six Sigma concepts and techniques; guiding high performance team capabilities to harness collective intelligence and take quick action to test ideas and achieve real time business results; directing the design and development of process architecture and recommendation documents; taking accountability for realization of results; and presenting results and recommendations to senior and/or executive management as appropriate.

Ensures consultation is provided to stakeholders and process owners by building and nurturing trusted partnerships between stakeholders and teams to drive process improvements; directing the development of management systems to sustain process changes; empowering a culture of learning to drive stakeholder process improvement leadership competencies; directing stakeholder training to set the future direction of KP; and providing ongoing coaching to senior and executive management in order to build a continuous improvement mindset and culture, and to build capabilities that drive results.

Directs the development of strategic plans which ensure alignment of organizational objectives, business priorities and process improvement initiatives by ensuring performance metrics, standards, and methods are defined, developed, and evaluated to establish process success and drive future growth; partnering with executive stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure cohesive and reachable metrics; reviewing and refining strategic plans and performance metrics as appropriate to establish the long-term direction; and overseeing a portfolio of diverse and complex initiatives to ensure delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives.

Serves as a lead advocate for continuous improvement by keeping abreast of cutting edge industry practices, standards, and benchmarks; attending and presenting at roadshows, conferences, and speaking events; leading the ongoing enhancement of process improvement practices, standards, and methods across KP; and serving as an advocate to ensure continuous learning and improvement is championed as a people strategy.

Oversees large and complex change management activities associated with care delivery or clinical initiatives by engaging and influencing stakeholders to obtain support and buy in for changes; partnering with executive management, project champions, and clinical owners to communicate and align improvement initiatives with strategic objectives; deploying appropriate change management method and approach to ensure future organizational growth and capability; and ensuring stakeholders embrace a change management mindset, understand intent and purpose, and foster a culture of change.

Directs team members in performing complex data analyses to drive care delivery or clinical initiatives by guiding team members to employ appropriate data analysis tools and approach to assess performance; empowering team members to utilize suitable data gathering and analysis methods (e.g., process observation, hard data, etc.); defining data requirements and obtaining customer agreements, including customer requirements as appropriate; and forecasting and alleviating risks through data-driven analysis.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Health Care/Public Health Administration, Behavioral/Social/Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Mathematics, or related field and minimum ten (10) years progressive corporate, non-profit, project management or consulting experience, including minimum five (5) years in process improvement or directly related field OR Minimum thirteen (13) years progressive corporate, non-profit, project management or consulting experience, including minimum five (5) years in process improvement or directly related field.

Additional Requirements: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Acumen; Negotiation; Business Process Improvement; Written Communication; Applied Data Analysis; Managing Diverse Relationships; Project Management; Service Focus

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